Foxe (John) [Foxe's Book of Martyrs] Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable..., 2 vol., both vol. titles within large figurative woodcut borders, calendar in black and red, one folding woodcut plate only (of two), numerous woodcut illustrations throughout text, title vol. 1 laid down to sheet, and that of vol. 2 with marginal paper repairs to verso, vol. 1 stain at gutter head to initial ff., and lacking 3U8 (?presumably blank), otherwise a few paper repairs at edges (no major losses), some intermittent browning, occasional staining, contemporary calf, covers fully or nearly detached, portions of loss to spine and covers, worn, [STC 1126], folio, Peter Short, 1596.
⁂ The work was first published in Latin in 1559 and in English in 1563. The plate present is the 'Description of Windsor Castle'.
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